It's too tight, right? Like literally the shirt is too tight. This is why open back shirts work so well. The open back shirt gives you a little bit of external rotation, but it magnifies the compression strategy on the front side. So I can magnify my output by squeeze. An artificial squeeze is just like my muscles squeezing me tighter. But now I can add a couple of hundred pounds of squeeze. I get just enough external rotation by keeping the back of the shirt open. The guys with the tight shirts, the first guy that tore the back of his shirt and goes, 'Hey, I can lift more weight even when the shirt was one piece.' It demonstrates the law. It's like, if the harder I squeeze, the more force I can produce, but I still need a space to move in too. Otherwise the bar doesn't move. So when the guy puts on the bench press shirt, he tries to lower the bar to his chest and he can't touch. There's so much compression. External rotation is gone. You see it?

Exactly.

Yes. Yes. I see it. Thank you. So then you're really looking for these types of people who are looking to achieve this high level of speed. Like you want almost no yielding action. Would that be correct? Because that would mean a ton of yielding.

It's orienting you into external rotation. That is correct. But external rotation, if you had full excursion and you were able to expand that posterior rib cage, external rotation would still be straight in front of you as you initiate arm elevation away from your body. But because of the compressive strategy on the backside, it moves it over that way. Because changing your physical shape and therefore the space around you to access that motion moves from here to over there.

Yeah. And then, so another question I had was, whenever you have an asymmetrical ISA, I think you regard that as a twist. Yeah. Just a bigger twist. So do you expect the pelvis to turn in the direction of the wider side? Or do you expect the thorax to go one way and the pelvis to stay facing another way, or go the opposite way?

So chances are you're not actually yielding on the left side. And the side bend that you're talking about is an attempt to reacquire internal rotation downward into the ground. So your right foot is supinated, correct? It's more supinated because you can't dorsiflex.

Your goal is to create the best representative model that you can, which takes time. It takes frustration. It takes effort. It's horribly painful. And if you're willing to do that, that's how you get better. Most people aren't willing to do that. They want easy. The younger the industry, the easier people want it because they want it now. Grace is willing to invest 30 years of her life to get better. Are you?

So I have 10 times the experience. That doesn't mean you don't know anything. It just means that my ability to shift the probabilities in my favor is better. That's it. So 86% of the time, I'm more likely to have the outcome that I want.

I think it's just part of the evolution, if you will. But again, if we ask more questions about how we do stuff in the first place, which is what I've done for the last five or six years, rather than saying like, 'I'm gonna use this system and this system and this system,' ask the questions like, 'how do you actually achieve certain things?' Now I can say this will fit into that category. This will fit into that category. And now I have my big, you know, big bowl of stuff that is mixed up, rather than saying boom, boom, boom, right? Which is what everybody, like I said, that's kind of what everybody does. Is everybody gets excited? Because everybody wants to do the latest thing. It's any different than it was. But again, keep asking the right question. Every time you do something, you better have a why reason for it, right? Every time you get an outcome, try to rationalize why did that happen or why did it not happen. What did I do wrong? Did I pick the wrong exercise? Did I give a bad cue, et cetera, et cetera. So again, it becomes very process oriented. But I think it's always the recognition that no matter what you do, you don't have the answer. You have an answer, and there's probably something better. Which keeps it exciting, I think. It keeps me interested anyway. I'm more interested in what I do now than I've ever been. And I'm almost 30 years in as a PT. And then I actually started training people when I was an undergrad. So who would want to go with that guy? I don't know, because he was an idiot. But point being is, it's like you just have to accumulate this stuff and recognize that it's just a process.

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OK, because we're not talking about relative motions here. What we're talking about is compensatory IR strategies. A compensatory IR strategy is not going to be relative motion; it's going to be bending stuff. So where do you want to bend? Do you want to bend in the rear foot? Do you want to bend in the midfoot? Or do you want to bend in the first metatarsophalangeal joint?

Yeah, so I guess on my mind when I'm thinking it, oh, I've been playing with the modes of weight to say with like narrows, if whether it's a sideline propulsion or prone propulsion, like teaching them that sensation on like an unweighted position of what that means. So when we get to a starting like, so I guess I'm struggling to give them the sensation on the ground of what to do with their foot.

Yes.

Yes. Well, OK, this goes back to Dale's question actually. In regards to connective tissue behaviors, you're going to have a certain amount of stress relaxation and a certain amount of creep. Then you're going to hit that vertical line on the curve, right? We're on one side, it's like, is there enough load to cause a deformation to take you into the plastic region where you're basically at the end of the elastic element? Like under most active circumstances because of muscle activity, if you're holding a static position, can you appreciate the fact that you would have an increasing degree of concentric orientation of the muscle in that position as the connective tissue yields?

So let's back up a step and go to your chopping activity. I just put their foot on a thing, and now you've actually unweighted that side. You see the difference? There's a big difference between the two. You see it?

Yeah.

Get it? Yeah. So like somebody that doesn't, that can't capture, like so this rear foot mobilization, like that video you posted what a day or two ago, I don't know, it's not a long day, but with all the exercise, so like, but really like somebody who can't, it would just be like an appellate, like someone who can't capture some representation of that, then like they're yielding in some funny spots instead of

Right. And so if I were to do them from the first pull, would that kind of reinforce their pressurizing, their downward pressurizing strategy.

And that's low. We're speaking locally. You're going to have an iterative and anatomical representation approximately as well. So I'm not going to negate that, but I'm just being very particular about local. Yeah. Solius is a big influence in that regard and so will be the deep posterior compartment under that circumstance.

Okay. At what relative effort?

Yeah. So you're doing a left hip ER measure and then she's turning her spine towards you. Not with relative motions, my friend. You've got an anti-orientation here. So she's bending her spine to accommodate that lack of range of motion. So when she's on the ground, through her left foot. This is what I was saying in the explanation is that if you watch her ground contact of her left foot, she is oriented. So she would be accused of having a prolonged pronation in ground contact. The problem is it's not a relative motion pronation of her foot. It's the orientation of her pelvis coming up and over to push down into the ground.

I mean, if I try to pull White as a back, if he is in the endgame, I need to pull him back to the right middle here first, and then turn to the left, right? That'd be the sequence. But how can I know what is the time to turn them to the left?

Good morning, Bill. greetings. I wanted to flesh out a little bit more about our conversation from last week regarding Romanian deadlifts and Paul's situation. I've been thinking about it over the past week while watching people move in the gym and observing RDL execution, and I've been considering that for individuals with a narrower stance, the sumo deadlift might be a better option than a regular RDL if we're looking for something with less impact on relative motion. I appreciate that once we start loading, we reduce relative motion regardless, but with many of the people we work with, we're trying to increase posterior chain strength while also addressing potential restrictions, creating a balancing act. For instance, how do we strengthen the posterior chain without further closing the pelvic outlet beyond its existing constraints? I was thinking that we don't get as much rearward translation in a sumo deadlift as we would in a conventional RDL. Does that align with your thinking on the matter?

Yeah.

I just don't know what you mean.

Yes.

And that's my go-to, but you're talking about, but you're talking, you're talking about a specific knee orientation.

That's what prone knee flexion is. That's right. So, hang on. One is like that. And one is like that. They're not the same. Oh, yeah. How about that? That's helpful. Peter didn't smile though. So I'm a little upset that it was not a light bulb moment for him. Clearly he is well ahead of the game. Don't wake it up. No, that's why they're not the same. That's why you can't use them as the same measure. Because they don't. Yeah.

Oh, that one. Well, see, here's what you want to pay attention for. Look at the parameters, like the work-rest ratios and things like that. Right? Because what you're trying to do there is drive a certain type of energy production that stimulates a cascade of events to promote fat loss. From a workout perspective, workouts designed to promote fat loss are an adjunct to the appropriate nutrition. They are not the solution. So you've got to be careful with that. But you can influence certain aspects. Anyway, thanks for the chuckle, I appreciate that.

Okay. So you made a proximal change that reduced the compressive strategy that he had at the hip. So you compressed the pelvis, correct? Yeah, OK, so he's got an ERD orientation at the proximal hip that you took away. So that reduces the need for the anti-orientation. You gave him true IR. Instead of an anti-orientation for IR, you gave him relative motion IR. So he was superimposing, he was now capable of superimposing the IR on the ER, okay? You untwist the knee, right? You reduce the load on the medial aspect of the knee as he is starting to try to load that foot with the crossover into the cut.